A view from the Bridge

Twenty years into his career, Neil Bridge says he is still as driven to achieve his objective of making Schroders "… the number one group for the foreseeable future"

Without doubt, Schroders’ Neil Bridge could be argued to be one of the finest Mancunian exports to hit the asset management industry. The group’s head of UK intermediary sales (“We’re not allowed to use the term retail any more”) celebrates his 20th anniversary with the firm this week, and you can imagine his enthusiasm for his employer has not waned. Hailing from the home of Boddingtons, Oasis and the mighty Red Devils, “Bridgey” could once claim the reds’ midfielder as not quite a ‘mate’, but certainly a well-known neighbour. “But no-one believed me,” he defends in his distinctiv...